“…arguments of this exact form have been raised against nearly every distinctly modern art form.” Barber’s book sounds interesting, if flawed. Pliskin’s criticism is, as ever, good. It’s getting exhausting linking to him.

“I wanted to generate some visualizations of our project’s growth, so I decided to put together a little shell script that looked at the output from git log to spit out some metrics.” Ooh, nice one, Carlos!

“…the compass… measures a whopping 1.21km in diameter. according to wikipedia, ‘it is inclined to magnetic north (around 13 degrees east of true north) and is used by pilots for calibrating heading indicators’.” Blimey. That’s big.

“I am stumped by how to excerpt the language on message boards and blogs… My problem with message-board language brings up a prior problem in journalism: the difficulty of translating spoken language into written language.”

“I thought this decision to attach a reward to the choice represented a failure of nerve on the part of the designers … wedding a gameplay-reward to a decision that ought be governed by one’s sense of character and motivation.”

Some really nice ideas in here, that I need to think about more: notably, the use of edges (or are they seams?) to give control over the page in the middle, and context for it related to other pages. It’ll be interesting to see it on real devices, now.

“As you may have guessed, we’ve solved these problems, and replaced the Exception Notifier in most of the apps we manage, with a homegrown solution called hoptoad.” Gosh, the Thoughtbot guys really are on fire.

“My name is Sean Tevis [photo]. I’m an Information Architect in Kansas running for State Representative. I’ve decided to “retire” my current State Representative. I’m going to win.” Bold. He might just Howard Dean on us, but he deserves $9.

“…the act of mapping is itself a process of analysis, discovery, and design. It is a process of finding and giving meaning to information, of contextualizing information, and of developing new understandings of the places represented.”

“Lionhead’s system acknowledges the social context of co-op that other games ignore, and the bargaining over who gets to be the hero and how much the henchman is paid is a crucial part of the fun.” It’s all about the context; aninteresting take on co-op.

“The bottom line is, there are laws on the books in the EU that stand in direct conflict with the needs of Google’s architecture, and no amount of hand waving will make that fact go away.” Smart artcile about the legal issues of cloud computing.

“Having successfully built a soundchip out of a microcontroller together with my friends in kryo, I wanted to tackle the greater challenge of generating a realtime video signal along with the sound.” Wow. An ATMega88 turned into a demo platform.

An interview with E. Paul Zehr, whose book, “Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero”, discusses the matter of the interview. (is it possible for a normal guy to become about as fit as Batman? And can you maintain it?) Some smart points.

Will Wright: “…the process of play is the process of pushing against reality, building a model, refining a model by looking at the results of looking at interacting with things.“ Jones: “That’s still the mission plan.” Yes.

“The pleasure of video games, it seems to me, comes from our sense that we are collaborating in the realization of the designer’s intentions by learning those rules.” Yes. This is why I loved watching Mission Impossible: every week, a puzzle is solved.

“The capacity to convey narrative through interaction is a constitutive rather than accidental feature of the medium. Every time a designer exploits this ability we get closer to finding […] what forms of expression are unique to games…”

“The general rule to take from this is “dont use modules to create namespaces in controllers that are also names of pre-existing constants from other class definitions”” Matt J with some useful tips for namespaced controllers. Also, Warren G.